Subject: U.S. Supreme Court

• OUT OF THE AIR FORCE CLOSETHOW A MODEL SERGEANT CAME TO ADMIT HIS HOMOSEXUALITY ON NATIONAL TV

  August 12, 1992

• GIVE ME THAT OLD-TIME CONSTITUTION

  THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND INDUSTRY OVER PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS HAS TAKEN ON A RELIGIOUS FERVOR

  November 4, 1992

• FOR DECONCINI, POLITICS WAS AN ENRICHING EXPERIENCE

  September 22, 1993

• SEPARATE BUT MAS QUE IGUAL

  NEARLY HALF OF ARIZONA'S HISPANIC CHILDREN DROP OUT OF PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS. SOME PARENTS THINK THE SOLUTION IS HISPANIC CHARTER SCHOOLS.

  September 8, 1994

• AN OBSCENE LOOPHOLE DOUGLAS GATES WENT TO PRISON FOR SECRETLY VIDEOTAPING NAKED CHILDREN NOW, AN APPEALS COURT SAYS HE SHOULD GO FREE

  December 1, 1994

• Flashes

  July 11, 1996

• Babbitt's Interior

  As the White House flips and flops, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt takes his environmental losses and victories in stride. Is his stoicism a necessary virtue or a political vice?

  August 22, 1996

• A Quiet Voice Against the Death Penalty

  Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  October 3, 1996

• The Big Steep

  The only thing slick about Arizona Snowbowl is the snow

  February 20, 1997

• Extra Censory

  In Arizona, high school administrators can decide what may or may not be published in student newspapers. They are not bashful about protecting their own interests.

  August 7, 1997

• Government by Litigation

  Increasingly, public officials ignore laws they're paid to uphold. Citizens and interest groups regularly drag these same bureaucrats into court, trying to ensure that the laws of the land are enforced. But now even the courts, once bastions of authority,

  December 11, 1997

• So Sue Me

  The court has spoken; lawmakers stand in defiance. But if the state Legislature doesn't come up with a constitutional school finance plan by July, school's out forever.

  December 18, 1997

• Timely Tim

  Despite an unremarkable demeanor, public-interest lawyer Tim Hogan has a nose for trouble and a knack with judges

  April 9, 1998

• This Just In

  What's up with BOMEX?

  October 22, 1998

• Moral Sex

  City Hall Puritans crack down on sex businesses. Expect the courts to decide if the new laws are constitutional.

  December 31, 1998

• Reconstruction Ring

  June 26, 2003

• Letters

  Letters from the week of July 10, 2003

  July 10, 2003

• Cindy McCain Caught 2: Interview with John South, Tarnished National Enquirer Reporter Who Wrote Story

  November 12, 2008

• Deez Nutz: Philip Berg, Barack Obama Birth Certificate Challenger and 9/11 Nutjob

  Get over it, nutbars. Come January 20, he'll be the Prez, and there's nothing you can do about it. Weird how the extremes of the far right and far left end up playing patty cake with each other in this country. Take, for example, Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg, a former Pennsylvania assistant attorney general, and a supporter of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential primary. Berg is currently pursuing a quixotic lawsuit aimed a proving that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of

  November 18, 2008

• When Can Cops Pat You Down? State Takes Case to U.S. Supreme Court Today

  The case of an Arizona police officer who found a gun after she patted down the passenger of vehicle who had committed no crime goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The state, as represented by the Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, will argue that such pat-downs -- and using evidence found during the pat-down to bust someone -- are perfectly legal. A divided Arizona Court of Appeals decision has already deemed the search wasn't constitutional in thi

  December 8, 2008

• Hot Links: Cards Fans Going Frugally to Florida; Business Owners Protest Light Rail Fare Hike; W Scottsdale in Foreclosure

  No luxury resort for these Cards fans: The Arizona Republic covers Valley residents traveling to the Super Bowl on the cheap. After suffering the effects of years of light rail construction, business owners protest an increase in fare that could reduce casual shopping traffic. The W Scottsdale joins the ranks of the foreclosed. Go ahead, crank up that Internet porn -- the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't care. Few people pay tickets in the DPS speed camera pr

  January 22, 2009

• Pat-Downs of Passengers by Police Approved by U.S. Supreme Court

  The U.S. Supreme Court decided today that, based on an Arizona case, cops who pull vehicles over in traffic stops can pat down passengers for weapons without any suspicion of wrongdoing. You can read about this issue, which affects anyone riding in a vehicle, in our post from last month. We suspect this ruling could make it easier for unscrupulous police officers to abuse typical search standards.

  January 26, 2009

• March 9 In Blogs: James Harden, Jimmy Eat World, First Friday and More

  We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Brewer vs. Nader: The U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Arizona's Appeal on Ballot Law ASU's James Harden Named Pac-10 Player of the Year Feathered Bastard: Everyone Knows Darrell Ankarlo Blows, KTARsucks.com Wants to Tell You How Hard Up on the Sun: Jimmy Eat World,

  March 9, 2009

• ACLU Demands Peoria School District Allow Kid to Wear "Rainbows are Gay" Wristband

  The American Civil Liberties Board of Arizona is threatening action against the Peoria Unified School District after an eighth-grade student was prohibited from wearing a "Rainbows are Gay" wristband. The 14-year-old gay student was told to wear the wristband inside out or quit wearing it to school, says the demand letter by the ACLU. An official with the Peoria Unified School District tells New Times the district is still in spring break and that Superintendent Denton Sant

  March 17, 2009

• Guantánamo’s Final Days: America Prepares to Shutter the Infamous Prison Camp, and Jihad Looms

  February 26, 2009

• Border Patrol checkpoints near Yuma nab hordes of pot users headed back from the beach

  March 13, 2008

• Sign Wars

  One man fights Scottsdale for the right to twirl signs

  March 29, 2007

• Legal Love

  Getting the cream for free

  April 21, 2005

• Heil to the Chief

  ASU's Art Museum is planning a show to coincide with this fall's presidential debate. The art would make Michael Moore blush.

  July 1, 2004

• Pastor Claims Abuse at Border Patrol Checkpoint on Interstate 8

    A local Baptist pastor who was left bloodied and indignant Tuesday night after a stop at the Border Patrol's checkpoint on eastbound Interstate 8 wonders in a recent video, "Why is this happening in the United States of America?" New Times readers who remember our February 2008 article on the infamous checkpoint know the answer: Because of a disputed -- but still potent -- U.S. Supreme Court ruling. As the article states, the Border Patrol was grant

  April 16, 2009

• Courting Death

  U.S. Supreme Court says don't short-change death clients

  July 3, 2003

• Polygamy's Odyssey

  A brief history of the Mormon tenet

  March 13, 2003

• Bound by Fear: Polygamy in Arizona

  For decades the state has let a feudal colony of fundamentalist Mormons force underage girls into illegal polygamous marriages

  March 13, 2003

• Judging Stanley

  Justice Stanley Feldman has ruled the Arizona legal scene for years. But now he's gone. And Governor Janet Napolitano has some important decisions to make.

  January 23, 2003

• The Merry Revolutionary

  Clint Bolick is trying to change the world, one lawsuit at at time.

  March 7, 2002

• Blow Up the Box

  TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched . . . and watched

  December 28, 2000

• Habla Di, Habla Da, Strife Goes On

  Federal ruling in bilingual-education lawsuit goes unheeded by state officials

  March 23, 2000

• MisJudged

  U.S. District Court Judge Carl Muecke ruled on the letter of the law, but his liberal views and tough courtroom style made him the judge that conservatives love to hate

  September 4, 1997

• DOES NOT WORK TO CAPACITY

  PHOENIX UNION'S DESEGREGATION PROGRAM PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS. BUT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FLUNKED OUT WHEN IT CAME TO EDUCATING KIDS.

  September 28, 1995

• THE LIFE BEHIND A RACIAL MISTAKE

  June 8, 1994

• O'CONNOR'S COURAGE

  July 8, 1992

• Hot Links: Wolverine, Miss Arizona, and Tempe Town Lake

  The world premiere of the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine will take place at the Harkins Cine Capri at Tempe Marketplace on April 27. Tempe won the premiere, which star Hugh Jackman is scheduled to attend, through an online contest by Twentieth Century Fox...Alicia-Monique Blanco, better known as Miss Arizona, earned the second runner-up prize at the Miss America pageant on Sunday in Las Vegas. Miss North Carolina won the crown, and Miss California was named first runner-up...A Tucson woman who w

  April 20, 2009

• Arpaio’s Avondale Sweep a Bust, Pima County Sheriff Wants to Check School Kids’ Immigration Papers, and Chris Simcox Takes on McCain

  April 30, 2009

• Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Called Racist by the Racists

  Sonia Sotomayor, a racist? Riiiiiight.... You know it's taken a turn for the surreal when an obnoxious lout like William Gheen is calling you a racist. Gheen is a nasty piece of work, the founder of the extremist nativist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which is headquartered in Raleigh, NC, burial place of Senator Jesse Helms and the Republican Party's Southern strategy. (NB: Conservative North Carolina went blue in the 2008, giving all 15 of its electoral votes to Barack O

  May 29, 2009

• Underwear the Safest Place for Students to Hide Contraband, Says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

  The U.S. Supreme Court decision to declare a strip-search of an Arizona student unconstitutional also "announces the safest place to secrete contraband at school," says Justice Clarence Thomas. Just stick those drugs in your skivvies. Don't you love when a government official makes things clear for the public? You know, just in case people didn't get the point from the ruling itself. Thomas' ultra-honest opinion aside, this ruling was a no-brainer. Searching a young girl's panties for Advil

  June 25, 2009

• Hot Links: Lethal Injections, Tribal Theft, and Jesus In Concrete

  A federal judge ruled yesterday that Arizona's lethal-injection procedure is similar to the method approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Executions have been on hold in Arizona since November 2007, when the Arizona Supreme Court stalled the execution of inmate Jeffrey Landrigan pending a federal decision about lethal execution methods in other states...San Juan Southern Paiute Vice President Evelyn James admitted Wednesday to stealing almost $300,000 in tribal funds from the northern Arizona India

  July 2, 2009

• Jan Brewer Bans Abortion (for a Day), Democrats Should Consider Hara-kiri

  The donkey Rip van Winkle, Arizona style... Our Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has effectively banned abortion for 24 hours with the stroke of her pen. Where are the Arizona Democrats? Asleep somewhere, dreaming of Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama gamboling in a field of poppies. And I don't see any sign that they'll be waking up any time soon. This is the disaster wrought by defeat -- the sound defeat of the state Dems in 2008. As anyone who gives a spit about women's rights knows,

  July 15, 2009

• On Sonia Sotomayor and Street Spanish

  July 23, 2009

• August 4 In Blogs: Sheriff Joe, Souls of Mischief, Metro Brasserie, and John McCain

  ​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Inspires Children's Crusade Against Him This Friday, August 7 Up on the Sun: Souls of Mischief Headlines the Summer of Sound Hip-hop Show This Saturday What To Make Of These New Muse Tracks Chow Bella: Favorite Ethnic Markets: India Plaza Chef Talk: Matt Taylor, Metro B

  August 4, 2009

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio Denied -- Again -- On Public Records Lawsuit

  Sheriff Joe gets a third strike in his attempt to read court email.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has lost yet another round in his near-endless quest to read the email of Superior Court judges.This decision, from the Arizona Court of Appeals, appears to mark the third such rejection. Arpaio's request was initially rejected by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Norman Davis, a decision Arpaio then appealed. The appellate court unanimously upheld Judge Davis' rejection in June.This

  October 16, 2009